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What is Global Competence?

The idea of global competence articulates the knowledge and skills students need in the 21st century.

Globally competent students have the knowledge and skills to:

Investigate the World

Globally competent students are aware, curious, and interested in learning about the world and how it works.

Recognize Perspectives

Globally competent students recognize that they have a particular perspective, and that others may or may not share it.

Communicate Ideas

Globally competent students can effectively communicate, verbally and non-verbally, with diverse audiences.

Take Action

Globally competent students have the skills and knowledge to not just learn about the world, but also to make a difference in the world.

The Four Domains of Global Competence

Four Domains of Global Competence

Learn More About Teaching for Global Competence

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Five Reasons Why Global Competence Matters

Talking points to help make the case for global competence education in your school and community.
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Educating for Global Competence

Read the book that introduced the definition of global competence, Educating for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World.

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Rosetta Stone Social Emotional Skills
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A Rosetta Stone for Social and Emotional Skills

Learn more about how research suggests that social and emotional factors could and should play a more pivotal role in educational policy and practice.
Color Is a Language (Zuhair Ahmad/flickr)
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Efficiency in Communication

Students compare different communication methods in this short lesson on efficiency in communication.
Education activist Dr. Tererai Trent is the keynote speaker at Asia Society's Partnership for Global Learning Conference in Brooklyn, New York on June 27, 2014.

Interview: Educator Who Inspires Oprah Defines 'Global Competence'

Education activist and "favorite" guest of Oprah Winfrey Dr. Tererai Trent talks to Asia Society ahead of her keynote at the Partnership for Global Learning Conference on June 27, 2014.
Wendy Kopp in China for Teach For All's Global Conference
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Why is Education a Global Issue?

Q&A with Teach For All's Wendy Kopp
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Create a Language

Students create their own language in this lesson as a way to understand how languages are constructed.
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Assessing 21st-Century Skills and Competencies Around the World

A new report on how to measure creativity, collaboration, and other 21st century competencies.
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Five Reasons Why Global Competence Matters

Talking points to help make the case for global competence education in your school and community.
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The Many Ways the World Communicates

A short activity that stretches student understanding of what language truly is.
One in five U.S. jobs are tied to international trade. (Santosh Kushwaha/Asia Society and Longview Foundation)

How Global Are US Schools?

A new interactive map, featuring one million data points, shows American schools are preparing students for the past, not the future.

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